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The chicken that lived for 18 months without a head
BBC ^ | 9/10/15 | BBC

Posted on 09/09/2023 5:31:01 PM PDT by DallasBiff

Seventy years ago, a farmer beheaded a chicken in Colorado, and it refused to die. Mike, as the bird became known, survived for 18 months and became famous. But how did he live without a head for so long, asks Chris Stokel-Walker.

On 10 September 1945 Lloyd Olsen and his wife Clara were killing chickens, on their farm in Fruita, Colorado. Olsen would decapitate the birds, his wife would clean them up. But one of the 40 or 50 animals that went under Olsen's hatchet that day didn't behave like the rest.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History
KEYWORDS: bokbokbok; headlesschicken; mike; nancypelosi
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Mike, the headless chicken was probably more intelligent than Brandon or Mitch.

1 posted on 09/09/2023 5:31:01 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

(The chicken that lived for 18 months without a head)

Which Democrat state did it represent in the U.S. Senate?


2 posted on 09/09/2023 5:34:01 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: DallasBiff
Olsen would decapitate the birds, his wife would clean them up.

That sounds like a fair division of labor. I wish I could get my wife to agree to that for the dove and quail I shoot, but no luck so far. And rabbits and deer are right out.

3 posted on 09/09/2023 5:36:35 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: DallasBiff

We had one that seemed to live about 18 minutes after Grandma chopped its head off. It flew up and down and ran around the barnyard like crazy until it finally dropped over.


4 posted on 09/09/2023 5:39:09 PM PDT by chuck allen
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To: DallasBiff

They fed it with a dropper. Ghoulish.


5 posted on 09/09/2023 5:39:31 PM PDT by Right Brother
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To: DallasBiff

That’s nothing! Up here in Canaduh, since 2015, we’ve had a Crime Minister who is brain dead!


6 posted on 09/09/2023 5:40:40 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian ( Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam)
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To: DallasBiff

and then he became President of the United States


7 posted on 09/09/2023 5:42:56 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: DallasBiff

Chicken dinners are very tasty. Fun to eat.
Preparing the chicken, not so much.

As someone who spent summers on a farm as a kid, I know a little bit about both.


8 posted on 09/09/2023 5:45:27 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: DallasBiff

Mike, the headless chicken was probably more intelligent than Brandon or Mitch.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.
No doubt in my mind!


9 posted on 09/09/2023 5:56:16 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

That’s nothing! Up here in Canaduh, since 2015, we’ve had a Crime Minister who is brain dead!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
We have a chicken running for President by the name of Mike.


10 posted on 09/09/2023 6:00:37 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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To: Leaning Right

“without a head, Leaning Right wrote:
Chicken dinners are very tasty. Fun to eat. Preparing the chicken, not so much.
As someone who spent summers on a farm as a kid, I know a little bit about it”

I wish I would have been that lucky I worked at my uncle’s farm during summers and he was a pig farmer...


11 posted on 09/09/2023 6:11:54 PM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: DallasBiff

Not so amazing at all. Biden has lived longer than that and he doesn’t have a brain.


12 posted on 09/09/2023 6:13:21 PM PDT by CFW (I will not comply!)
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To: DallasBiff

If that’s the picture, then he didn’t cut off the head. He cut off the face of the chicken leaving it blind and unable to eat. (How did it survive with no food?) I’m not interested enough to read the entire article, but the guy did’t make a clean cut at the right spot.


13 posted on 09/09/2023 6:16:07 PM PDT by CFW (I will not comply!)
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That is what is seems to have happened.


14 posted on 09/09/2023 6:25:01 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: CFW

Fed it with a dropper.


15 posted on 09/09/2023 6:41:09 PM PDT by roving (👌⚓Deplorable Listless Vessel with Trumpitist who looks Trumpish)
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I’d have used a baster.


16 posted on 09/09/2023 6:41:38 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Leaning Right

Yeah...I got to watch for where the chickens ran when they got lopped. Seems like a killing cone would have been put up at some point, but no.


17 posted on 09/09/2023 6:44:02 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Leaning Right

My granddad on my mother’s side lived outside of New Orleans just upriver. The levee was literally across the hwy. They had 40 acres and grew corn and other stuff I’ve long forgotten. Had chickens, too. I remember that Grandpa would snatch a chicken by the neck right there in the yard and whirl it around over his head a few times to break its neck. Then came the pluckin’ and the guttin’.


18 posted on 09/09/2023 6:47:53 PM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: DallasBiff

How old is BIden?


19 posted on 09/09/2023 6:55:01 PM PDT by BereanBrain
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

When I was four my grandmother took me by boat to the old country (Italy) and among my weird memories of the time was watching her cut a chicken’s head off. I watched them de-feather and clean it and eventually fry it. I wondered, at what point does this become something I’ll want to remember. Watching it fry up into something edible was that point.


20 posted on 09/09/2023 7:06:26 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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